Ties That Bind: Hawai'i In the Pacific is a documentary feature that explores how Hawai'i'is commercially caught tuna and swordfish get from the ocean to the sushi roll with an emphasis on some of the difficult management issues that underlie the process.

Ties that Bind: Hawai'i in the Pacific

Anya and Seryozha, eighteen and nineteen years old, have been close friends since school. They live in Mariupol, an industrial city in southeastern Ukraine. The film shows snapshots from the life of young people searching for who they want to be and how they want to live. They move between autonomy and uncertainty, rebellion and melancholy. They are full of imagination and willpower.

Anya and Seryozha

Victoria and Siaka, an Austrian-Gambian couple in their mid-30s in Vienna, are in love, but being together has not been without turmoil. As they work on a relationship between two continents, the foundations are laid for their shared future as a family.